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Veterans supporters line Princeton streetsBy JODY NEALBluefield Daily TelegraphPRINCETON — Scores ofpeople lined Mercer Street Tuesday anticipating the sights and sounds of the annual Veterans Day parade.Seventy-four-year-old Ernest Dishner, of Princeton was one of the veterans who showed up to watch the parade. “I’m here to honor our veterans and to enjoy the parade,” the former Air Force member said. Dishner, who served his time in the Air Force during the Korean War said honoring our nation’s veterans is “very important. We owe the freedom of our country to them.”Mary Cumbowr and her daughter, Patti Brown, were waiting for Cumbow’s husband, Green Valley/Glen-wood Volunteer Fire Department Chief Richard Cumbow, to roll through the parade as well as two of Brown’s children. “I’m watching for one in the 4-H van, one in the Glenwood Middle School Band and my dad in the Green Valley fire truck,” Brown said.Cumbow said, “My husband is a veteran, and we come here to honor all of the men and women who are fighting now and yesterday. I’m proud of the job they’re doing.”Bill Freeman served in the Army after World War II and was one of the last group of men to be drafted for the war. “I’m here honoring those people who are serving the greatest country in the world and have been for 227 years. This is a super-special time, despite people bad-mouthing what is going on (in Iraq),” he said.“I believe in supporting our veterans,” Walter Wade, of Princeton, said of the reason he and his wife, Dorothy, were watching the parade.“They fought and died for us, and we need to appreciate that,” Dorothy Wade said.The grand marshals for theparade were Kelly Gresby and Ray Cheatwood. Gresby,who served in the Korean War, said being honored as grand marshal “feels great. It is really an honor, and I’m very surprised at the crowd that was out here today.“A lot of times, veterans don’t get the respect they deserve, but we look for it on Veterans Day.”Cheatwood, a World War II veteran, was also a prisoner of war in Germany. “I was a POW for 15 months and 13days. Half of my outfit was wiped out, and the rest of us ended up at the POW camp. A lot of them didn’t make it out of that camp,” he said.
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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Bluefield, West Virginia, US
Wed, Nov 12, 2003
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